The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) will host the annual meeting of the Technical Working Party for ornamental plants and forest trees (TWO) organized by the "International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants" (UPOV), an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva. This event will take place in Angers from the 14^th to the 18^th September 2009.

TQ Helianthus has been updated under point 4, new version to be used from now on.

Please make sure to download the last version from the Technical Questionnaires page.

A workshop on Farm Saved Seeds was held in Brussels on the 17th of June 2009.

Some presentations and speeches are available for download in the agenda. Click "Read more..." to find out.

Update 8th July 2009: final minutes are available for download.

The following Technical Questionnaires have been added or updated in the fruit and vegetable crop sector:

New ones:

• CPVO-TQ/60 Beta vulgaris L., ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva Alef. (Beetroot)
• CPVO-TQ/198 Allium schoenoprasum L. (Chives)
• CPVO-TQ/218 Pastinaca sativa L. (Parsnip)
• CPVO-TQ/245 Eruca sativa Mill. (Garden Rocket)
• CPVO-TQ/244 Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC (Wild Rocket)
• CPVO-TQ/240 Hippophae rhamnoides L. (Common sea buckthorn)

Updates:

• CPVO-TQ/12 Phaseolus vulgaris L. (French bean)
• CPVO-TQ/85 Allium porrum L. (Leek)
• CPVO-TQ/46 Allium cepa (Cepa Group), Allium cepa (Aggregatum Group) and Allium oschaninii O; Fedtsch. and hybrids between them (Onion, echalion, shallot, grey shallot)
• CPVO-TPQ/13 Lactuca sativa L. (Lettuce)
• CPVO-TQ/40 Ribes nigrum L. (Blackcurrant)
• CPVO-TQ/22 Fragaria x ananassa Duch (Strawberry)
• CPVO-TQ/50 Vitis L. (Grapevine)
• CPVO-TQ/11 Rosa L. (Rose)
• CPVO-TQ/94 Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull (Ling, Scots Heather)

Please download them from the Technical Questionnaires page